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Corporate Social Responsibility  |  Feb 26, 2010 2:35 PM CST

Madeline Ravich is a Justmeans staff writer and sustainability consultant with interests in CSR ratings and rankings systems, sustainability data visualization, standards for product responsibility, and general corporate responsibility strategy....

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A CSR Rankings Riddle

rankings-chart3It was brought to my attention that I have not yet done a comparison of RiskMetrics Group's Global ESG 100 with the four other CSR rankings I have cross-referenced in previous posts.* So here goes: the first of two posts. Today I will leave you with a riddle about the one thing that the CRO, Ethisphere Institute, Newsweek, Corporate Knights, and RiskMetrics Group universally agree upon. Next week, I will reveal the answer, and will present my full analysis of overlap between the latest Global 100 ranking and the four other previous CSR rankings I have covered in this series.

First, a bit about the two versions of the Global 100. Up until last year, there was one Global 100 published by Corporate Knights but developed by RiskMetrics Group. This year, RiskMetrics Group and Corporate Knights parted ways. From what I understand, Corporate Knights decided to apply a new approach, while RiskMetrics Group decided to continue applying its time-tested methodology.

So, now my riddle: in comparing the RiskMetrics Group Global ESG 100 to the top 100 lists developed by CRO, Ethisphere Institute, Newsweek, and Corporate Knights, a single company made all five lists. Can you guess what it is?

*Disclosure: The author of this post was a contributor to RiskMetrics Group's 2010 Global ESG 100.

peter lapak
peter lapak 03am March 01
also, can you do a post on how these companies actually get their research? do they have any proprietary data or are they just combing publi...